bug#13210: [PATCH] maint: cygwin build broken

2012-12-19 Thread Paul Eggert
On 12/19/2012 07:46 AM, Z. Majeed wrote: I know I was close to giving up and just working on linux That's not giving up!

bug#13210: [PATCH] maint: cygwin build broken

2012-12-19 Thread Z. Majeed
or maybe there aren't many people building on cygwin because of issues like the ones I reported - cygwin packages can fall quite behind and coreutils is not available on cygwinports either - I know I was close to giving up and just working on linux Zartaj --- On Wed, 12/19/12, Eric Blake wrot

bug#13210: [PATCH] maint: cygwin build broken

2012-12-19 Thread Eric Blake
On 12/19/2012 03:23 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: > > But I think the attached coreutils patch > which just avoids auto enabling all these gcc > warnings on older compilers is more appropriate. I like the idea of only enabling the warnings on newer gcc. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-30

bug#13210: [PATCH] maint: cygwin build broken

2012-12-19 Thread Eric Blake
On 12/19/2012 06:25 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 12/19/2012 12:57 PM, Z. Majeed wrote: >> Thanks for fixing all the issues - are you folks open to adding a >> ginstall.exe manifest for the cygwin build? > > I presume the cygwin package puts one in place, > and it would be nice to keep windows spe

bug#13210: [PATCH] maint: cygwin build broken

2012-12-19 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 12/19/2012 12:57 PM, Z. Majeed wrote: Thanks for fixing all the issues - are you folks open to adding a ginstall.exe manifest for the cygwin build? I presume the cygwin package puts one in place, and it would be nice to keep windows specific stuff there. There is a related thread here: http

bug#13210: [PATCH] maint: cygwin build broken

2012-12-19 Thread Z. Majeed
Thanks for fixing all the issues - are you folks open to adding a ginstall.exe manifest for the cygwin build? Zartaj --- On Mon, 12/17/12, Z. Majeed wrote: > You're probably right about the mkdir > doc hack - I think I added it based on a similar rule for > another subdir - the win7 elevation

bug#13210: [PATCH] maint: cygwin build broken

2012-12-19 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 12/17/2012 11:20 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 12/17/2012 11:50 AM, Z. Majeed wrote: Building latest git source in a non-src directory on cygwin win7 with gcc 4.5.3 is broken I had to configure --disable-gcc-warnings to avoid the following errors because gcc 4.5.3 is the latest on cygwin

bug#13210: [PATCH] maint: cygwin build broken

2012-12-18 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 12/18/2012 11:20 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: > > [SNIP] > > Anyway an explicit `make doc/constants.texi` fails on my system too > (with a non-src build), and so can fail in a larger build > due to ordering of rules. > > Since we're manually writing the doc/constants.texi rule anyway, > I prefer to

bug#13210: [PATCH] maint: cygwin build broken

2012-12-18 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 12/18/2012 08:58 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: On 12/18/2012 12:20 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 12/17/2012 11:50 AM, Z. Majeed wrote: Building latest git source in a non-src directory on cygwin win7 with gcc 4.5.3 is broken - a patch follows - doc/local.mk: doc subdir is not created in build

bug#13210: [PATCH] maint: cygwin build broken

2012-12-18 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 12/18/2012 12:20 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 12/17/2012 11:50 AM, Z. Majeed wrote: >> Building latest git source in a non-src directory on cygwin win7 with gcc >> 4.5.3 is broken - a patch follows - >> doc/local.mk: doc subdir is not created in build dir - I made it a prereq of >> doc/consta

bug#13210: [PATCH] maint: cygwin build broken

2012-12-17 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 12/18/2012 02:57 AM, Z. Majeed wrote: --- On Mon, 12/17/12, Pádraig Brady wrote: From: Pádraig Brady Subject: Re: bug#13210: [PATCH] maint: cygwin build broken On 12/17/2012 11:50 AM, Z. Majeed wrote: Building latest git source in a non-src directory on cygwin win7 with gcc 4.5.3 is

bug#13210: [PATCH] maint: cygwin build broken

2012-12-17 Thread Z. Majeed
210: [PATCH] maint: cygwin build broken > On 12/17/2012 11:50 AM, Z. Majeed > wrote: > > Building latest git source in a non-src directory on > cygwin win7 with gcc 4.5.3 is broken - a patch follows - > > doc/local.mk: doc subdir is not created in build dir - > I made it a pre

bug#13210: [PATCH] maint: cygwin build broken

2012-12-17 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 12/17/2012 11:50 AM, Z. Majeed wrote: Building latest git source in a non-src directory on cygwin win7 with gcc 4.5.3 is broken - a patch follows - > doc/local.mk: doc subdir is not created in build dir - I made it a prereq of doc/constants.texi That seems a little hacky, for what seems li

bug#13210: [PATCH] maint: cygwin build broken

2012-12-17 Thread Z. Majeed
Building latest git source in a non-src directory on cygwin win7 with gcc 4.5.3 is broken - a patch follows - doc/local.mk: doc subdir is not created in build dir - I made it a prereq of doc/constants.texi - src/local.mk: make-prime-list missing $(EXEEXT) couple of places without which make-prim